Weather
The coldest season of the year
What is winter?
Happens when a strong windstorm that frequently brings with it pouring rain
What is a hurricane?
This kind of impact has the potential to kill animals and cause crops to die
What is agricultural impact?
This is referred to as a feedback because it improves the influence of the factors that originally created the warming
What is water vapor?
Contamination of the environment, either inside or outdoors, by any substance that changes the atmosphere's associated properties, whether chemical, physical, or biological
What is air pollution?
The warmest season of the year
What is summer?
This is when a big pile of snow and other material that falls from a mountainside rapidly
What is an avalanche?
Any water, either frozen or liquid, that evaporates and returns to the earth from the atmosphere
What is precipitation?
The Earth's average global temperature is rising due to the largest overall contribution from this gas
What is carbon dioxide?
This issue is caused by thermal expansion due to warming of the ocean and increasing melting of land-based ice
What are rising sea levels?
In what season do leaves start forming
What is autumn?
A quick shaking of the surface of the earth that often results in serious damage
What is an earthquake?
Sometimes referred to as "soil water," is the term used to describe the water on land surfaces that is found in soil pores rather than in rivers, lakes, or groundwater
What is soil moisture?
Produce climate change by absorbing heat, and they also lead to this type of illness through smog and air pollution
What is respiratory illness?
Ground-level ozone might rise in many areas due to climate change-related warming
What is atmospheric warming?
During what season do flowers start to bloom
What is spring?
A water overflow into typically dry ground
What is a flood?
Drought-related low water levels in reservoirs can limit the amount of electricity that these types of dams can produce
What are hydroelectric dams?
Gas that is present in the atmosphere in tiny amounts
What is methane?
Higher water temperatures, together with more regular floods and droughts, are expected to worsen many kinds of water pollution
What is water quality?
The months with the most snow
What are December and January?
These are enormous waves produced beneath the sea by volcanic eruptions or earthquakes
What are tsunamis?
Drought may harm these types of ecosystems and the benefits they give to human societies
What are natural ecosystems?
Extreme weather, food supply disruptions, and this are additional effects of climate change produced by greenhouse gases
What are increasing wildfires?
This problem is caused by burning fossil fuels, clearing forests, and raising animals.
What is rising temperatures?